Excerpt from The World-Mystery: Four Essays First, then, let me say that the term World Soul is not intended in this essay to carry the technical meaning of the platonic or neoplatonic all-soul or Soul of the Universals (ml/vxfi To?) rat/769 or raw (show); and so in order to express in some way what the term world-soul is intended to mean, it will be necessary to give a meaning to the words soul and world. By soul is intended the underlying something under every manifested form, that something which is the life, consciousness or intelligence, or whatever term is preferred, which makes it that form and no other. Nor should we exclude anything, not even that which in these latter days is called inanimate, from our sympathy, for to our greater Selves naught that exists, nay, not even the grain of sand, is in-am'mate, for then it would be soul-less, and the Divine would have been excluded from part Of itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.